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I have several navigation links that have sub pages, blog being one of them, and it’s easy to determine if I’m currently viewing a blog entry because “blog” exists in the URL. For example…

<a href="/blog/" class="expandable {if segment_1 == ">Blog</a>

But for my static pages (not using the Pages module) and blog entries I don’t know how to determine which category the currently viewed entry is in? I have this at the top of my templates…

{if segment_2 != ""}
   {exp:weblog:entries weblog="{my_weblog}" orderby="date" dynamic="on" sort="desc" limit="1" url_title="{segment_2}"}
      {assign_variable:view="single"} 
      {assign_variable:page_title="{title}"}    
      {assign_variable:current_category="{category}"}
   {/exp:weblog:entries}
{/if}

You can see that if segment_2 isn’t blank, then I’m viewing a single entry, and I’m changing my layout a bit further down the page, and setting the page title, but the current_category isn’t being assigned, it’s just printing {category} on the page. Ideally I’d like my navigation code to look like this…

<a href="/blog/" class="expandable {if current_category == ">Link to this category of entries</a>

or

<a href="/page/about/" class="expandable {if current_category == ">About</a>

Does that make sense?

I’m not sure if this is the only way, but to get the category name (or id) you need first to open the {categories} tag, and get the data inside that tag.

Maybe this example will help:

{categories}
{if '{category_name}' == 'food'}This is the food category{/if}
{/categories}

I swear I tried that and it didn’t work, but I’ll give it another shot. Thanks.

Well I’ll describe the context where I use that.

I’m using all inside an {exp:weblog:entries} tag. And I don’t have “categories” disabled: {exp:weblog:entries disable="categories"}

I’ll copy the code just how I’m using it in my template:

{exp:weblog:entries weblog="catalogo_de_discos" orderby="date" sort="asc" limit="1" disable="member_data|pagination|trackbacks"}
...
{categories}
{if '{category_name}' == 'Latinoamericana'}Selección Latinoamericana{/if}
{/categories}
...
{/exp:weblog:entries}

That works for me.